Category Archives: Communism

I love this pamphlet. It is a fascinating subject; 13 unknown revolutionary women, their story of how they not only fought for their own emancipation but led other revolutionary struggles. Revolutionary Women was produced by the Anarchist Federation who … Continue reading →

Reading this pamphlet reminded me of the report written by Mary Quaile following the TUC Women’s Delegation to the Soviet Union in 1925. Commenting on the welcome they received Mary said; “Women were there in hundreds, many of them with … Continue reading →

Last Saturday’s event commemorated the lives of the Frows, showing how their belief in communism was about grassroots activity which included the creation of the Working Class Movement Library in the 1950s. They wanted to encourage future generations to … Continue reading →

In this new book Workers’ Play Time seven scripts written about the struggle for workers and trade union rights are published. The editor Doug Nicholls reminds us of the importance of culture to the struggle for trade union freedom. “Cultural … Continue reading →

Ece Temelkuran is a Turkish journalist and writer. Her books and writings have taken up issues at the heart of the state of Turkey, exposing human rights abuses against Kurdish people, the Armenian dispute and, closer to home, the … Continue reading →

Andrzej Franaszek’s biography of the great Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz is more than the story of one man’s life: it is a compelling history of Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. Milosz was born in 1911 in Lithuania but … Continue reading →

2017 is the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution and it is difficult today to understand the hope that the revolution gave to ordinary women and men across the world. One of those women was Mary Quaile. An Irish immigrant … Continue reading →